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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

The drop in oil prices has been the primary driver of Russia’s current recession—but it has also affected emerging markets from Saudi Arabia to Angola to Brazil. The drastic drop in oil prices has obscured these issues, but they will continue to constrain growth even if oil prices recover.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.